In recent years, the number of divorces in Russia has slightly decreased, but still remains high: according to Rosstat, in 2016 there were 608,336, or 4.1 per thousand people. According to statistics, couples who have been married for five to nine years most often diverge. Those who have been married less than a year are less likely to get divorced - but such situations always arouse particular interest: why did people part so quickly?

Treason - one of the most difficult for any pair of issues. We are sure that we know the limits of what is permissible and can predict how we will react if we learn that our partner has changed us, but in practice everything turns out to be different. Someone believes that betrayal begins with emotions, with the mere thought that we like the other person more than our partner; and someone does not consider sex with another person to be a betrayal - provided that the partner will not fall in love with a stranger.

LAST YEAR IN RUSSIA, there were about a Million Marriages registered - and about 600 thousand divorces. Attitudes toward marriage are gradually changing, many couples are no longer trying to maintain relationships that have exhausted themselves, regardless of how long they have been together and whether there are common children. True, the latter, such a decision affects not less than the partners themselves.

To spend one life with one person or at least several years is a serious decision, as well as an attempt to part with it. But instead of moving on after parting, many decide to start a relationship with a former partner from scratch. Sometimes after this, relations go to a new level, sometimes both, on the contrary, understand that it is better for them to separate from each other.

Motivational trainings teach how to “take the path of success” and follow it to the end. However, that on the road there may be obstacles, conditions change, and old goals - and completely go to the background, are usually silent. When the situation is not as we would like, we are used to encouraging ourselves with platitudes like "The Strongest Wins" or "Just do it".

The other day, producer Yana Rudkovskaya in an interview with the TV channel “Rain told how she brings up her five-year-old son Sasha to grow up as a“ champion ”and a“ real man. ”The boy, nicknamed Dwarf Gnomych, is what Yana Rudkovskaya’s parents and figure skater Yevgeny Plyushchenko call the child. skating, leads the same name instagram (in fact, the page is supervised by his parents) and participates in fashion shows.

Sometimes nannies spend about as much time with their wards as they do with their own children. The only difference is that sooner or later you have to part with the children of clients. We talked with five nannies about how they leave families and what feelings they feel. Some names are changed at the request of the characters.

Отношение к религии - и интимный, и сложный вопрос. Случается, что люди на протяжении жизни становятся религиознее, кто-то, наоборот, постепенно от веры отказывается. Sometimes this question arises especially acutely - for example, if a person enters into a relationship with a person of a different religion. We talked with several such couples about whether they have household or ethical difficulties, how relatives and friends behave, and how the issue of raising children is resolved.

Although bodipositive is on everyone’s lips, the opposition of “tall girls” vs “real women” is still alive. As in gloss, there is often no place for people of unfashionable proportions, so the ordinary world doesn’t seem to be designed for tall women: they don’t find clothes in stores (apparently, they are supposed to always wear fashionable clothes), and indeed outside of specially designated spaces Like a podium or a basketball court, tall women cause passers-by to have a variety of feelings that they feel free to share.

Professional burnout is confronted primarily by those whose work implies a greater emotional burden: for example, oncologists often see the death of patients, and employees of palliative centers suffer and suffer. We asked the volunteer, the president of a charitable foundation, and the director of a social television program how people involved in charity deal with their feelings and why they don’t give up.

We have already told you where to have sex so that pleasant memories remain, not health or law problems. Now, different people have shared their personal experience of sex in public places - in the theater, in a hospital bed, under the noses of the Swedish police and in other non-obvious places - and appreciated the limits of their own and others' freedom.

Now to meet a person who writes with his left hand is easier than ever. But just recently, all left-handers were retrained in schools and at home — sometimes with very cruel methods. We talked with six people whom we tried to teach to write with our right hand about how they experienced the pressure of teachers and parents - and how it all ended.

Christmas promises - a useful tradition. For many, the date itself helps to reconsider their lives and decide on changes. True, more often good intentions end in nothing: according to research, only 8% of people succeed in achieving the goals set in the new year - and about 80% surrender by mid-February.

Everyone who tried to build long-term relationships knows that this is not easy. And if this partner struggles with depression or other difficulties, it can become even more difficult. We talked with several people whose partners had different mental disorders, about how this experience was - and how to maintain a caring attitude to the partner without losing ourselves.

According to VTsIOM, more than 20% of Russians surveyed consider premarital sexual relations unacceptable for both women and men. At the same time, adults, who deliberately keep their virginity, are still often considered “strange”. We have already talked about how the concept of virginity has changed in the modern world - and today we talked with several women and men who do not have sex, and found out how it affects their lives and their perception of themselves.

After the French published a letter in Le Monde, defending the right of harassment, many wondered why this happened in France. People who took the side of the creators of the petition, rested on the national perception of sexuality and a special attitude to the women's agenda, in which the position of the victim seems to be humiliating.

Many of us treat our name as a given, which "do not choose." It’s great when your own name is like, but what if the letter combinations in the passport are not liked, they seem to be “strangers”, and sometimes they just interfere with living? We talked to people who deliberately changed their first name, last name, or abandoned their middle name.

New Year is also a mandatory series of gifts. You can relate to the tradition in different ways: someone is genuinely happy to give presents on New Year's Eve, while others, on the contrary, do not like congratulations on a schedule. But those and others almost certainly will have a story about the most memorable gift in their life — the most beloved and dear or, on the contrary, strange and incomprehensible as being under a tree.

Initially, the cryptocurrency industry was probably a closed men's club, but the reality today is that there are more women in the blockchain world, and they come to very different positions: investors and traders, analysts and consultants, popularizers and experts. We talked with some of them in order to understand how their work started with the blockchain, how they see the prospects for a new volatile cryptocurrency market and what is needed in order to earn serious money on bitcoins.